IDRiM 2016
Disasters and Development: Towards a Risk Aware Society
Dates: 1-3 Ocober 2016
Venue: Hotel Abbasi, Isfahan, IranThe 7th Annual Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk
Management (IDRiM 2016), entitled “Disasters and Development: Towards a Risk Aware
Society” with focus on “Natural Hazards and Disasters, Water and Climate Change” will
be held in the historical city of Isfahan, Iran from October 1- 4, 2016. In collaboration
with IDRiM, the 2016 conference is organized and hosted by the Iranian Earthquake
Engineering Association (IEEA) in collaboration with multiple national and internationalorganizations.
About IEEAIEEA is a non-profit institution founded in 1993 by a group of Iranian earthquake
researchers, faculties and engineers. The main goal of the association is to improve thequality of earthquake engineering and seismology as an important field of study in Iranand provides the students and engineers with required scientific support. IEEA is anational member of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) as
well as European Association of Earthquake Engineering (EAEE).

Conference Topics:
1. Resilient Societies, Cities and Infrastructures
a. Lessons learnt from past disasters
b. Resilience criteria of cities and infrastructuresc. Resilience modeling2. Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development
a. Social and economic factors
b. Creating demand for safety among publicc. Building code implementationd. Coping capacity buildinge. Mitigation strategies and planning
f. Urban planning for disasters
g. Role of women in disaster preparedness
3. Climate Change and Environmenta. Integrating with climate change and development goals
b. Energy, water, food and poverty nexus in the face of climate uncertaintyc. Water resource management
d. Water security and environment
e. Modeling environmental change
f. Financing in water resource management
4. Risk Governance Frameworks for Disaster Risk Managementa. Integrated risk governanceb. Role of scientists, government and people for implementation of Sendaic. Risk communication and participatory stakeholder processes
5. Integrated Disaster Risk Management: Emerging Tools and Implementation Cases a.
Natural and anthropogenic hazard and risk modelingb. Risk and contingency planningc. Na-Techs and natural hazard threats to critical infrastructured. Industrialization, land use and technological hazards
e. Multi-hazard approaches
f. Human loss and casualty estimation
6. Economic Loss Estimation and Disaster Insurance
a. Direct economic loss estimationb. Catastrophe risk financing mechanisms
c. Fiscal resilienced. Business interruption and supply chain vulnerability
7. Disaster Responsea. Role of non-states agencies (NGOs) in disasters
b. Role of international agencies and donors
c. Centralized top-down disaster response and efficiency
d. Monitoring and managing long term impacts of disasters
e. How to cope with refugees and displaced persons in disasters
f. Emergency and crisis managementg. Emergency and crisis management
h. Disaster restoration, revitalization and regrowth

Keynote Speakers
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Kabat Pavel (IIASA-DG): Benefit of System Science, The Case of Global Energy& Water Security
Haresh Shah, Alex Chen: Disaster Risk Insurance for Mass
Norio Okada: Creating a Milestone in IDRiM Initiatives: How Can We Go Further toSubstantiate Implementation Science?

Important dates:
January 15February 15

May 1Approval of Conference Announcement by Steering Committee
Opening of IDRiM2016 Official website

Call for Abstracts and Submission of Extended Abstracts

Start of Pre-registrationSpecial Sessions proposal

Nomination of Keynote Lecture by the Conference SteeringCommittee

May 30

Closing Date for Extended Abstracts

June30

Notification of Session and Extended Abstract Acceptance

July 15

Announcement of Preliminary Conference Program

August 15
September 1
October 1Deadline for Early Registration

Deadline for Additional Poster Program

Announcement of Final Conference Program
Start of ConferenceOn-site Registration, IDRiM2016

International Steering Committee
Aniello Amendola (Italy)
Andrew Collins (UK)Ana Maria Cruz (Japan)
Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtinaly (Iran)
Bijay Anand Misra (India)

Hans-Peter Nachtnebel (Austria)Norio Okada (Japan)
Adam Rose (USA)
Hirokazu Tatano (Japan)
Muneta Yokomatsu (Japan)

Executive Committee
Azam Askari
Mohammad Atachali
Hamid Doosti
Malihe Eskandari
Yasamin O. Izadkhah
Hooman Motamed

Farokh Parsizadeh (Committee Chair)
Masoomeh Rakhshandeh
Mojgan Salari
Vahid Tajik

Executive Staff

Ghorbanali Aghaei
Seyed Mohammad Emami
Milad Molavi
Mohammad Reza Pashaei

Salar Arian Moghadam
Amir Sedaghat
Mohammad Reza Soghrat
Saied yousefi

Scientific Committee
Ahmadzadeh Soudadeh, UNFPA, Iran
Amini-Hosseini Kambod, IIEES, IranArdalan Ali, Shahid Beheshti Uni. IranAmir Mazaheri Darius, AFPS, FranceMastami Morteza, IIEES, Iran
Bayani niloufar, UNEP, IranBehnamfar Farhad, IUT, IranCruz Ana Maria, Kyoto Uni., Japan
Ghafory-Ashtiany Mohsen, IIEES, Iran
Hochrainer-Stigler Stefan, IIASA, Austria
Hosseini Mahmood, IIEES, IranIzadkhahYasamin O., IIEES, Iran
Jafari mohammad Kazem, IIEES, Iran
Kabat Pavel, DG of IIASA, Austria
Khazai Bijan, KIT, Germany
Komendantova Nadejda, IIASA, Austria
Krausmann Elisabeth, EU, JRC, Italy
Langan Simon, IIASA, Austria
Maknoon Reza, Amir Kabir Uni., IranMansouri Babak, IIEES, IranPhotos: IDRiM2016 Conference Gallery

Mazaherian Hamed, Ministry of Road and urbanDevelopment, Iran
Mirmohammad Sadeghi Masoud, Isfahan Higher
Education and Research Institute (IHEARI), Iran
Nachtnebel Hans Peter, BOKU, Austria
Mochizuki Junko, IIASA, Austria
Moghadam S. Abdolreza, IIEES, Iran
Motamed Hooman, IIEES, Iran
Nasserassadi Kiarash, Zanjan University, Iran
Parsizadeh Farokh, IIEES, IranOkada Norio, President of IDRiM Society, Japan
Parsizadeh Farokh, IIEES, Iran
Taheri Bahram, Minister of Emergency, Iran
Tatano Hirokazu, DPRI, Kyoto Uni., Japan
Parthasarathy Devanathan, Indian Institute ofTechnology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Shah Haresh, Stanford University, USA
Thummarukudy Muralee, UNEP
Yokomatsu Muneta, DPRI, Kyoto Uni., Japan
Zolfaghari Mohammad Reza KNT Uni. Of Technology, Iran